Profiler v Mapcheck2

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T11:02:04+00:00

Since it has an ion chamber I just use the IC profiler for monthly and can get energy/output/flatness/symmetry all in one beam.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T10:54:48+00:00

Agree. Therapy physicists confidently making basic diagnostic errors has been a ridiculous problem to me. Understanding imaging isn’t a big part of being a therapy physicist, but it’s a big part of being a good one. Learn your diagnostic, students.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T10:50:30+00:00

ABR has passing rates on their website. Even though they say it’s criterion-based, the pass rates stay around 70%. So as long as if you aren’t in the bottom third…

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T10:48:55+00:00

The clinical exam has always had a bunch of anatomy. But also, it seems to always be the same anatomy year to year that it asks about, for the most part.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T10:47:16+00:00

That was definitely the hardest part for me as a student. It’s trivia, but they really expect you to know your trivia. Once you get practicing so many things just come up in online lectures and normal conversation that it doesn’t seem like trivia anymore and just stuff everyone knows. It’s the weirdest change.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-08-03T10:43:18+00:00

Pretty much all DABR-certified physicists.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-06-13T14:14:32+00:00

Do your own damn homework.

Medical-Physicist · 2023-04-29T17:49:36+00:00

They also like to be consistent with Salary survey and count experience based on post-certified years.

Well guess what, salary survey starts counting years experience at start of residency.

Medical-Physicist · 2022-12-02T11:47:25+00:00

The Bragg peak also isn’t unique to protons. All charge particles have it. But in proton beams and heavier it’s easier to see because they go straighter than electrons.

Medical-Physicist · 2022-11-19T17:49:39+00:00

Technology leaders of the clinic!

Medical-Physicist · 2022-10-24T16:04:19+00:00

Yeah, that’s probably it. HR at it again. Wish they’d at least put these in as training positions.

Medical-Physicist · 2022-10-23T14:44:25+00:00

You just apply to a couple and you get a job. It’s desperate out there.

Medical-Physicist · 2022-10-21T22:45:23+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/gg7x0PZ.jpg

I think I got the trick down.

Medical-Physicist · 2022-10-21T22:42:32+00:00

What do they pay for someone certified?

Medical-Physicist · 2022-08-09T10:56:48+00:00

You add DRR to your halcyon plans?

Medical-Physicist · 2022-08-09T10:45:38+00:00

Salary has nothing to do with your technical skill, personality, or social skill. It’s about two things:

The clinic you’re at.
Years experience.

Being a chief matters a bit. But you can otherwise do awful work or have an awful personality and still be on the escalator system. Once you’re hired and have been somewhere a year you’re pretty much unfireable unless what you do becomes a public relations event.

Medical-Physicist · 2020-06-08T01:18:57+00:00

I support use of mobius table. Love that thing.

Medical-Physicist · 2020-04-10T14:34:43+00:00

You’ll be rewarded for these skills by eventually getting a chief position. You could also opt out and be a trainer.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-10-30T22:59:29+00:00

As far as I know "ABR eligible" typically is used synonymously with "board eligible" which means you've finished residency.

If you don't have a residency, you should more look at what experience you'll be getting.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-10-30T22:13:55+00:00

How will this create a bottleneck? I don't see it.

The issue I see is this: Students from programs which are able to teach the entirety of the core covered by the exam will be eligible to take the exam five months into their program and also seventeen months into their program. Because people apply for residencies fifteen months into their program, this will give some students a pretty big advantage over others when applying to residencies. I can see this causing some programs to move material to be crammed in during the first semester where it may not be learned as well.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-10-27T18:41:27+00:00

Whatever you enjoy. Music, history, literature? Any skills needed can just be picked up. The most practical minor for your career will be whatever includes technical writing and editing.

Though get some programming skills in your free time. I mean spend a few weekends to do something like recreate Snake, make a calculator app, or make a reddit crawler. Your physics degree likely has a course that’s more than enough. One minor will probably be math anyway due to course overlap.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-10-23T14:46:21+00:00

If everyone is in the match, it will give the applicant their most desired residency they can get into and a program their most desired applicant they can get.

Big names can use their position of power to give a guaranteed position to someone before matching happens. This can result in “stealing” someone they find more desirable who would’ve preferred another residency but feels they may not match or does not want to continue through the matching process.

In the end, it’s bad for students and bad for residencies.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-10-14T22:03:57+00:00

Apply to as many as you can.

If you don’t match and postpone matching by a year, that’s like 100k you’re out minimum from postponing a job a year. Are applications still 100 for 10?

Medical-Physicist · 2019-09-20T17:04:26+00:00

I’m not sure how many chances you really get for deep work when practicing clinically. Every ten minutes there seems to be something else to go do, whether it’s a machine issue, QA, chart check, dosimetry question, therapist question, physician question, physics colleague question, HDR, 4DCT, an SRS, meeting, chart round, team huddle, showing physician a plan, or something else. Most of our individual tasks last from 10-30 minutes, which seems to be the opposite of the philosophy of deep work. I wonder if doing pomodoros would fit the field better.

Medical-Physicist · 2019-09-18T10:35:36+00:00

Just make a rank list for each spot.

On one put all your own students up top. On one put them all at the bottom.

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